Cannonfire

Where Will You Live After the Roundup?: From Cannonfire: "There [are already] over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA...should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States...."

Now...

"Halliburton has received massive contracts to build [even more] domestic detention centers. This site carries a fun-n-convenient listing of these concentration camps. Now you can get an advanced glimpse of your new home..."
http://supressednews.blogspot.com/2006/08/letter-from-us-congress-concerning.html

Orcinus

How to talk to a right-winger: "We have gone on too long assuming that our right-wing opponents are...unchangeable and unchanging....

"Yes, their logic loops are closed up so tight as to be frustratingly impervious to reason. Yes, they absolutely do mean to do us -- and our democracy -- grievous harm.

"Here's the good news. That Great Wall that separates our little reality-based community from The Fantasyland Next Door is not a monolith. Nor are the inmates of that Otherworld necessarily locked in there for all time and eternity. There...are cracks in that wall. They are small and subtle, to be sure (that's why nobody's ever noticed them before): at this point, they are mere hairlines, faint traces that are hard to spot without a good flashlight in the hands of someone who knows where to look.

"But...I am here to tell you: there are places where it fails. People do cross it, and survive to tell the tale. And...it's high time we mapped those cracks, find effective ways to widen them, and eventually exploit them to help both afflicted individuals and our larger culture break through the insanity. "

Thomas Paine's Corner: Fatal Contradictions: Capitalism is Doomed

Thomas Paine's Corner: Fatal Contradictions: Capitalism is Doomed: "Fueled by the Industrial Revolution the capitalist system broke the brutish shackles of feudalism on the people of that day. At the same time capitalism began creating the only force capable of destroying it—the working class."

Economic musings for our time. Compare with Molly Ivins:

The Suicide of Capitalism

Chip Berlet: God, Calvin, and Social Welfare - Part One: Coalitions

Some insights into "common sense" and coalitions:

Chip Berlet: God, Calvin, and Social Welfare - Part One: Coalitions

What is "common sense" for one group...is foolish belief for another. According to author George Lakoff, a linguist who studies the linkage between rhetoric and ideas, there is a tremendous gulf between what conservatives and liberals think of as common sense, especially when it comes to issues of moral values. In his book Moral Politics...Lakoff argues that conservatives base their moral views of social policy on a "Strict Father" model, while liberals base their views on a "Nurturant Parent" model.

Killtown: 9/11 Rescuer Saw Explosions Inside WTC 6 Lobby

Killtown: 9/11 Rescuer Saw Explosions Inside WTC 6 Lobby:
New information on 9/11:

"Ground Zero EMT Patricia Ondrovic talks about her harrowing day at the WTC on 9/11. Within minutes after the South Tower collapses, she witnessed the WTC 5 blowing up, cars exploding, and explosions inside the lobby of the WTC 6,
all the while narrowly escaping with her own life. Patricia can be reached at: fieldangel911@yahoo.com"

Cannonfire

Cannonfire:
brief essay on the politics of turbans:

...we have good reason to believe that ancient Israelites -- including Jesus -- usually wore the turban, which was called a 'tsaniph' in Hebrew....

...most of the people who wear turbans in the United States are Sikhs -- who, as it happens, are neither Arabs nor Muslims. ...)

Delusions of Grandeur

Delusions of Grandeur:
The Marianas Islands, Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay:

The Marianas Islands are an American territory in the Pacific. Clothing manufacturers love it there because the islands are not covered by United States labor laws, but the manufacturer can put 'Made in the USA' on the label. What happens there? Poor immigrants save up their entire lives to pay a black market guy to smuggle them to the United States. He takes their money, puts them on a boat and dumps them in the Marianas Islands where they are forced to work in sweatshops for $3/hour if they're lucky. The unlucky ones become sex slaves and have forced abortions.

People with a conscience who like to sleep at night have been fighting to get this barbaric practice shut down, and that's where Abramoff comes in. Singlehandedly, this man has kept it alive. Well not singlehandedly, I suppose. Care to guess what Tom DeLay thinks about forced abortions and sex slavery in a United States territory?

'You are a shining light for what is happening to the Republican Party, and you represent everything that is good about what we are trying to do in America and leading the world in the free-market system.'

And

'...a perfect petri dish of capitalism. It's like my Galapagos Island.'

Impeach Bush Coalition

Impeach Bush Coalition: "A United Coalition of Blogs for the Impeachment of George W. Bush"
What are we waiting for?